Klingsor's last summer
Hermann Hesse (Author), Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator)
A 1920 novella that chronicles the final, intensely creative summer of a middle-aged expressionist painter named Klingsor, who grapples with mortality, sensuality, and the pursuit of beauty in the face of impending death. Set in the Italian countryside, the episodic narrative is filled with vivid, expressionistic prose, heavy drinking, and philosophical reflections on life, art, and the search for meaning, mirroring Hesse's own life and artistic struggles during that period
Print Book, English, 1970
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1970